Madam War Criminal
Biljana Plavšić, Serbia's Iron Lady
Simić, Olivera
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 384 blz., gebonden, 2025, ISBN 9781805262862
Simić, Olivera
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 384 blz., gebonden, 2025, ISBN 9781805262862
A tale of the violent terror and chilling unrepentance, from the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity in the Bosnian war.
In 2001, Biljana Plavšić made history: she became the only female political leader ever prosecuted for mass atrocities. She was the one woman among 161 indictees at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - and the first since Nuremberg to be convited by an international court.
Charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, Plavšić took a plea bargain. Just one other Bosnian Serb politician at her level was sentenced: Radovan Karadžić himself, President to Plavšić's Vice-President in the autonomous Republika Srpska. Yet before the conflict, Plavšić had been a globally renowned scientist at the University of Sarajevo, penning journal articles and serving as faculty dean.
This gripping book resolves around hundreds of hours of interviews with a stridently unrepentant war criminal - now in her 90s, and a free woman. How did this biology professor end up heading a vengeful ethnonationalist movement that murdered tens of thousands?
In 2001, Biljana Plavšić made history: she became the only female political leader ever prosecuted for mass atrocities. She was the one woman among 161 indictees at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - and the first since Nuremberg to be convited by an international court.
Charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, Plavšić took a plea bargain. Just one other Bosnian Serb politician at her level was sentenced: Radovan Karadžić himself, President to Plavšić's Vice-President in the autonomous Republika Srpska. Yet before the conflict, Plavšić had been a globally renowned scientist at the University of Sarajevo, penning journal articles and serving as faculty dean.
This gripping book resolves around hundreds of hours of interviews with a stridently unrepentant war criminal - now in her 90s, and a free woman. How did this biology professor end up heading a vengeful ethnonationalist movement that murdered tens of thousands?
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